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Ju-Lion The Voice Picks Community Over Numbers on "The Boy & The Voice" Album

Ju-Lion The Voice has said it plainly: "Streams are cool, but a real fanbase is everything." That one line explains a lot about h...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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Chris Colepaugh Spent Two Years Drumming for Big Sugar Before Writing "The Work Makes Me"

Chris Colepaugh's career didn't start behind his own microphone. Before fronting Chris Colepaugh & The Cosmic Crew, he spent ne...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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Driek Manders Composed This Album From a Psychiatric Ward on the "Through Wind and Weather"

Driek Manders was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, being treated for depression, at the exact moment "Through Wind and Weather...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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Starry Boy Builds "Zen" Around What He Leaves Out

Starry Boy treats silence as an actual ingredient, not just the space between sounds, and "Zen" is where that approach becomes cle...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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Tholly Rewrote a Painting to Turn His Old Craft Room Into a Studio for "Moonlit Habit"

There's a painting still hanging in Tholly's home studio that once read "This is our happy place," made for the room his ...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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fromtheswamp records Alone in a Bedroom to Sound Like Being Outside on "Peaceful Waters"

fromtheswamp recorded "Peaceful Waters" entirely alone in a bedroom studio, playing every instrument and programming every drum p...

thisaktmusic 19 Aug, 2026

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Massimo Mazzocca Roots "Flow & Find" in His Native Italian

Massimo Mazzocca wrote the lyrics for "Flow & Find" in Italian before translating them into English, working carefully to pre...

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